Official Windows Vista MEGATHREAD

[htw]

Originally Posted by Pepper

This might not have a thing to do with vista but I got to ask and see if anyone knows.

I just got a new vista OS computer and is running fine (Except the Nvida card issue with Alero but thats known), the problem is with the internet not updating cookies/pages correctly.

For instance: I come to MMOBugs website. The website will show my last activity from a day before still and showing I have like 80 unread posts yet I just read them all. The only way for me to update this is litterally click refresh the browser.

Is this something set like this on purpose with Vista for security or am I just being dumb atm?

Heya Pepper. This might be the IE 'protected mode' that it runs in. Try click it off, see if you have any better luck. You could also try to add the site to the allowed cookies sites (Tools, Options. Privacy Tab. Click Sites button, put in address, and click Allow).

htw

[Pepper]

Originally Posted by htw

Heya Pepper. This might be the IE 'protected mode' that it runs in. Try click it off, see if you have any better luck. You could also try to add the site to the allowed cookies sites (Tools, Options. Privacy Tab. Click Sites button, put in address, and click Allow).

htw

I figured out the issue. You was close though, it is a IE security issue. The system came defaulted to never update temporary internet files. Thus everytime I came to my home pages, the exact same page was loading again without refresh.

New system is running perfect now.

Vista surely is a memory hog though. Having 4 gigs of ram and just siting at desktop doing absolutely nothing usually 25-32% of that is in use. Not much of a issue to me with 4 gig but could certainly be to folks with 2 or less.

[lorgin]

I just got a new laptop with vista and i cant seem to find the amd program that lets you use 1 processor instead of both. Can anyone provide a link to where i can find it? Thanks in advance for any help

[WickedMetalHead]

Originally Posted by Pepper

Vista surely is a memory hog though. Having 4 gigs of ram and just siting at desktop doing absolutely nothing usually 25-32% of that is in use. Not much of a issue to me with 4 gig but could certainly be to folks with 2 or less.

That's not Probably Not Vista Being a Memory Hog, Vista is smart about memory and it will utilize free memory to preload programs that you use often in the background. If you end up needing these resources it will free them. Basically it takes nothing but allows commonly used programs to load faster.

[WickedMetalHead]

Originally Posted by lorgin

I just got a new laptop with vista and i cant seem to find the amd program that lets you use 1 processor instead of both. Can anyone provide a link to where i can find it? Thanks in advance for any help

Are you talking about setting a program to just use 1 core in a multi core device? If so you can just go into task manager, right click on the process, and hit set affinty, and just uncheck all but one box.

[Villageidiot]

So far vista is soso for me. Ever since i started using vista i end up crashing a lot while zoning. Sends me back to server select screen quite often. Other than that it seems nice. Just wish i could get the crash thing figured out

[GotemGood]

I keep getting the error when i perform task's on Desktop that says Windows explorer has stopped responding and then it restarts

[htw]

Using Vista 64 here, have since RC2 last year. The only issues I get, are the same as I had in XP, e.g. if explorer starts crashing, I take a look at what I installed that hooks into explorer, and usually removing one of those fixes it.

Otherwise, some of the drivers took a little while to polish.

The only gripe I have is IE7, which IMO is one serious POS. No worries though, I have been a firefox user for years LOL.

htw

[diamondmine]

Well not sure how to get it to work with eq.

I click on the ico and patcher comes up then dissapears and nothing happens. So I right click and run as Admin. I can then log into my account. After I log in and it does everything I hit the PLAY button. At this point the window opens to get to the next screen it tries to resize a few times and then ends program.

I tried selecting run as win xp SP2 but still the same thing. I selected run as admin and I still have to right click and go through the security bypass for anything to work. still the same problem. When the window renders to goto the server select it just blinks out.

There was no information on the web about this happening. If anyone could point me in the right direction - thanks.

[JimJohnson]

get the correct dx filles.